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Abstract: The death of Marcia L. Colish on April 9, 2024, a little shy of her 87th birthday, comes as a deep blow to all intellectual historians, especially those with close ties to the Journal of the History of Ideas. Widely known for her penetrating intelligence, her unfailing support of colleagues and students alike, and her incisive interventions on a wide variety of topics, her passing deprives our community of a consummate scholar and an exemplary human being. She was not only respected, but truly beloved.Colish’s association with JHI runs back more than a half-century. She first contributed an article here (on Vives) in 1962 while still pursuing her doctorate at Yale, in the days when graduate students were generally ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Intellectual history and the history of political thought are, perhaps unsurprisingly, fields preoccupied with their own formation. Since the early twentieth century, when historians in the US academy began using the term “intellectual history,” well over a hundred essays by some of the discipline’s most prominent figures have looked to chart its origins, pick out its distinctive traits, and lament its wrong directions.1 For some, “intellectual history” has been synonymous with a specialized understanding of “the history of ideas”; others have insisted on its relationship with the history of philosophy; for others still it has been a more capacious category, including anything that might count as interesting or ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: During the Middle Ages and the early modern period, the antiquity of a city or a region played a considerable role in the construction of the collective identity of its inhabitants. The more ancient a community’s origin, the more it was regarded as prestigious and admirable.1 It was particularly common for cities or regions to claim to date back to Roman times. This period was prized for two reasons: first, the idea of power and refinement associated with ancient Rome was a source of fascination during the Renaissance era and, second, it was, in many areas, the oldest past known through written or material sources. The claims of these communities were generally based on age-old local traditions. However, from the ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In 1799, shortly before the coup of 18 Brumaire, Year VIII, an unusual pamphlet appeared in Paris, titled The Political Opinions of Citizen Sieyès and His Life as a Politician. Although published anonymously, it was probably written by Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès himself or by Konrad Oelsner, and provided a detailed account of the former’s political career to date.1 While today Sieyès is mostly remembered for his role as the leading ideologue of the Third Estate’s revolution against the ancien régime and as the originator of the distinction between the “constituent” and “constituted” powers, it is striking that this pamphlet placed these achievements on equal footing with Sieyès’s now somewhat obscure contribution to ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This essay offers a new perspective on the relationship between philosophy of science and political economy in early nineteenth-century Britain. It does so via the writings of the British political economist and clergyman, Richard Jones (1790–1855). Here I read Jones in the context of his ongoing conversations with his mentor, friend, and colleague, William Whewell. Specifically, I look at how the conceptualization of “facts” and “particulars” in Whewell’s systematic exposition of scientific method informed Jones’s writings, enabling a major redefinition of the object of political economy. As we shall see, by creatively reconfiguring Whewell’s method, Jones made political economy historical and ethnographic ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Jules Michelet (1798–1874) built his reputation as France’s beloved national historian with his vivid narrations of France’s past from the Middle Ages to the Revolutionary era. Buried among his long list of historical works, and often overlooked as a minor work or digression, is a small set of nature books that he published in the 1850s and 60s. Studies focusing on these nature books have treated Michelet’s view of nature as a corollary of his view of humanity, highlighting how nature transformed, in his eyes, from an un-tamed, malevolent entity to humanity’s twin sister.1 Be it an enemy or a twin, Michelet’s nature is the comparative and competing counterpart to the human world. Michelet described nature as a ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This article explores the intellectual relations between Michel Foucault and the comparative mythologist and philologist Georges Dumézil. Foucault was explicit about his indebtedness to Dumézil at several points in his career. The purpose is to offer something more than a broad claim of influence: it indicates how Dumézil’s approach is evident in Foucault’s own writings, discussing in detail several instances of specific engagement with Dumézil’s work in Foucault’s lectures—instances where Foucault draws insights from Dumézil’s books and uses them in his own analyses.The first part of the article surveys Foucault’s engagements with Dumézil’s work. The following four parts explore specific cases of Foucault’s use of ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: On February 17, 1949, Manabendra Nath Roy (1887–1954) warned of the “dangerous consequences” of “modern democratic thought and practice.”1 Roy was a former revolutionary militant with ties to early Japanese pan-Asianist circles, a former Marxist ideologue of the Communist Party of India, a former member of the Indian National Congress, and, by the late 1940s, a vocal critic of most strands of anti-colonial politics in South Asia. On one hand, Roy declared in his 1949 speech, the rise of democracy as a legitimate form of government in modern Europe—from the English parliamentarians of the seventeenth century through to Rousseau and then the “Political Liberals” of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—had affirmed ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Journal of the History of Ideas is pleased to announce the winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize ($2,500) for the best first book in intellectual history published in 2022: Nathan Vedal for The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge, published by Columbia University Press.Eligible submissions are limited to the first book published by a single author, and to books published in English. The subject matter of submissions must pertain to one or more of the disciplines associated with intellectual history and the history of ideas broadly conceived: viz., history (including the histories of the various arts and sciences); philosophy (including the ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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